Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 23, 2012

Our guests give us the greatest tips! I want to pass this latest hot tip on to everyone who reads our Belize blog. Today a woman on our upcoming Belize island trip told me about some snorkel fins that she and her husband found on-line for a REALLY good price. She wanted my opinion on them. OK, I haven’t seen them in person yet, but I have to say they look very good. For one thing they are sp

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 22, 2012

This is a game we invented on our private island 35 miles off the coast of Belize. Players try to knock their opponent(s) into the 80 degree water by moving and stopping. But no physical contact is allowed. Last one on the iMat wins! This video was shot by Slickrock guest, Susan Beverage, and shows Slickrock guide, Matt Szymanwicz taking on another Slickrock guide, Neri Chi and an unidentified gue

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 21, 2012

Those of us who work in the Belize travel industry have been pedal to the metal for months now. Peak season for travel to Belize is mid-December – early-April. The weather is good into May or sometimes even June, but most people want to go south when it’s cold in the US and Canada. If you can go in April, you will enjoy peak perfect weather but you won’t be traveling with everyone else, and

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 20, 2012

One of the wonderful things (among many) about having an island resort in Belize is discovering the food of Belize. Many years ago I discovered a wonderful Belizean dish: Dukunu. We don’t serve it on the island because it is too labor intensive : ( But at a locals Belize City restaurant, like Ceni’s, you can sometimes find it. Dukunu is a fabulous dish! And you can make these marvelous

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 17, 2012

One of the many odd-looking creatures we see while diving and snorkeling at Adventure Island on Long Caye is the batfish, which actually looks nothing like a bat at all (baseball OR vampire). The species we have on Glover’s Reef is the Short-Nosed Batfish, but there are about 60 species of fishes of the family Ogcocephalidae (order Lophiiformes), found in warm and temperate seas; of which ou

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 16, 2012

When you own an island 35 miles offshore in the middle of the Caribbean and you take guests out and back each week, it is a good thing to own your own boat. Many island resorts in Belize do not own a boat but rather use charters or rentals. By owning our own boat, we make certain it is maintained properly and therefore we minimize potential problems with transport to the island. Another thing that

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 15, 2012

As tropical resorts go, our Adventure Island on Long Caye occupies a rather unique niche in the travel industry because it is so remote, unpopulated and has been developed in such a low-impact, eco-friendly way. But it turns out we’re not alone — the Belize tourism industry as a whole is at the leading edge of what is now being called the move toward a more “sustainable tourism.&

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 14, 2012

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on February 13, 2012

As most snorkelers and divers know, there are plenty of things underwater that can sting you: anemone, jelly fish, scorpion fish, sea urchins to name a few. Of course, there is nothing particularly special about the underwater environment that produces stinging creatures. Many land environments produce just as many stinging plants and animals. For example, the high desert canyon country of souther